https://cqrcengage.com/amacycle/app/write-a-letter?2&engagementId=259833&ep=AAAAC2Flc0NpcGhlcjAx3WEEsIQz7DnuEK6Q2jUtg50gshj0hh7ORpMuYUVEGjxRf1m_V_UWNeQduazI1jyqeJhxXnesWPgu4pKyyJ6_BZBu2IPLF8Pkfe6pqjHVW9Y&lp=0National Park Service Directors Order 100 puts climate change first, public engagement last
30 day comment period during election, without any public meetings, woefully inadequate
National Park Service Director John Jarvis, due to retire in January 2017, has released his Director’s Order 100 after months of work by an NPS staff of 30. The AMA has significant concerns with the plan and its intended, hurry-up implementation without meaningful public input just before the director heads out the door into retirement.
Most troubling to the AMA are the order’s unbalanced focus on climate change science, its lack of meaningful civic engagement and the references to you, the general public–for whom the parks are managed–simply as “other stakeholders.”
In a recent meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas L. Tidwell stated that, if he were allowed to add only
